15-letter words that end in nt
- social movement — a group of diffusely organized people or organizations striving toward a common goal relating to human society or social change, or the organized activities of such a group: The push for civil rights was a social movement that peaked in the 1950s and 1960s.
- source document — a document that has been or will be transcribed to a word processor or to the memory bank of a computer
- special student — a student who is not seeking a degree but enrols in a course, esp to gain academic credits
- stain resistant — (of a fabric, carpet, surface, etc) designed or having added chemicals in order to be resistant to being stained or marked
- street accident — a traffic accident
- stretch a point — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- sulfiting agent — sulfite (def 2).
- super-efficient — performing or functioning in the best possible manner with the least waste of time and effort; having and using requisite knowledge, skill, and industry; competent; capable: a reliable, efficient assistant.
- superconvenient — highly convenient
- supergovernment — a centralized organization formed by a group of governments to enforce justice or maintain peace.
- telegraph plant — a tick trefoil, Desmodium motorium, of the legume family, native to tropical Asia, noted for the spontaneous, jerking, signallike motions of its leaflets.
- tenth amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, guaranteeing to the states and the people those rights that are not delegated to the federal government by the Constitution.
- the last moment — If someone does something at the last moment, they do it at the latest time possible.
- the next moment — You use the expression the next moment, or expressions such as 'one moment he was there, the next he was gone', to emphasize that something happens suddenly, especially when it is very different from what was happening before.
- third amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, guaranteeing that the forced quartering of soldiers in private homes would be prohibited in peacetime and allowed only by prescribed law during wartime.
- timber merchant — a merchant that deals in wood for use as a building material
- time management — organized use of time
- trade agreement — commercial treaty between nations
- trading account — an account similar to a traditional bank account, holding cash and securities, and administered by an investment dealer
- train attendant — a railway employee charged with managing the safe boarding of passengers, ticket inspection, etc
- turf accountant — bookmaker (def 1).
- turn to account — to get use or profit from
- ultraconvenient — extremely convenient
- ulysses s grant — Cary (Archibald Leach) 1904–86, U.S. actor, born in England.
- underemployment — employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities.
- underinvestment — insufficient investment or laying out of money with the expectation of profit
- unit of account — the function of money that enables the user to keep accounts, value transactions, etc
- universal joint — piece that couples two rotating shafts
- vanishing point — a point of disappearance, cessation, or extinction: His patience had reached the vanishing point.
- volume discount — a reduced price for goods given by a seller on the basis that the buyer buys a large quantity
- walloon brabant — a province of central Belgium, formed in 1995 from the S part of Brabant province: densely populated and intensively farmed, with large industrial centres. Pop: 360 717 (2004 est). Area: 1091 sq km (421 sq miles)
- water treatment — the act or process of making water more potable or useful, as by purifying, clarifying, softening, or deodorizing it.
- water-repellent — having a finish that resists but is not impervious to water.
- water-resistant — resisting though not entirely preventing the penetration of water.
- wedding present — a present given to a couple when they get married
- wind instrument — a musical instrument sounded by the breath or other air current, as the trumpet, trombone, clarinet, or flute.
- winter resident — a person who spends the winter in a particular place
- wish fulfilment — (in Freudian psychology) any successful attempt to fulfil a wish stemming from the unconscious mind, whether in fact, in fantasy, or by such disguised means as sublimation